Water-softener.



G. E. BAILEY.

WATER SOFTENBR.

APPLIOATIO'N TILED MAY 16, 1911.

1,09 2? Patented' Apr. 7, 191* fiderrzza 1 5 I beginning, :1

end balls Within the passe 'metel arranged t0 travel Application fiiec't ll'e'y 1% To all whom it may concern: Be it known that It, citizen of the'United, Stet/est Angeles, in the county 01 Lee A State of Califeruim have i useful J'Veter- Softenm. ing is e specification.

The object ofmy invet m t0 provi l :1 Water softener eompesefi ct J cerm'vesitien ct metals which have (m. afiin" acids or elkalie ccntaineci ter, which is previed with e subs horizontal tortuous three body, and balls-composed 0:? e e recess States 0"embe1' stentially horizontal pass .nii Water to be purified in 1: source to the "boiler is breug contact withthemetefiie belie and th ads of the horizontal bet 13 Where acids or aikelis' are breug't with metals hzw'h'xg e21 etfini J The principal object 01" my provide a, softener which the greatest lenyth 0 w bells may be secured it: 0f space and the balls be cause tinueusly therein when W through the passage-Way ti: 1. abrading the Walls of the pins My invention consists 121 elongated herizentei body ham tiaHy horizontzil, continueee t t sage-Way therethrough, and 1): Within the substantially 1101 passageway which e acted w n rent of Water to fcrce th Sage-Way thus abredi J segeway. 1 3

My'inventicn perticui y ecnsis vidingj a flat rectangular bed in tien oimtended tength teegituqm a, 01'. a eompesitien 0'5 metals St. cebte for e tying water'end 1 vlding; av eentinueue Sage u batty extenfling one end to a peil-ltvnem" the outer end 01 body 15 em which it returns t0 the point my at one end 01" "such 7096.3, outlet therefrom adjacent te' the U --wzW race therein and abrede the wane sagewey.

My invention further ccn'eie" ing a Wetter softener oi the water by contact with the walls 9 and balls 1.0 in the passage 3. The balls 10 lying in the passage 3 are caused to travel longitudinally of the body. 1 and around the curved way at end 4: to return toward the end 5 where their further travel is arrested by the pin 11 at the junction of the outlet 6 and the bypass 12. Thepassage 3 gradually rises in an upwardly direction from the inlet 2 to the outlet 6 and the by-pass 12 is arranged to form a ball passageway from such outlet 6 to the passage at the inlet 2.. A plug 13 is provided in the end 4: which may be removed for the purpose of replacing worn out'balls or cleaning the passage from any obstruction. The pin 11 being located at the junction of the outlet and the bypass 12 stops the. balls from continuing along with the 'outiiowing water and their gravity causes into contact with the pin.

them to roll down the said by-pass into the passage where they are caught by the current of flowing water and are raced around the passageway until again brought flowing water through the passage causes the balls to constantly strike and abraid against one another and against the walls of the passage to thereby break ofi any accumulations of material that might form thereon and also keeps the balls and walls of the passage bright and active to chemical union with the minerals carried'by the water in solution. The action of the balls racing through the passage also serves to abraid or wear particles fromboth the balls-and the walls of the passage which is readily acted upon by the minerals carried by the water.

In operation the body is placed where the water is warmed" before entering through the inlet and I have shown a steam injector as the means for accomplishing that effect,

but it will readily suggest itself to others skilled in the art that such body may be placed between a boiler and ordinary cooking range provided with a water back heater and to receive such heated water therefrom.

The action of the composition of the body is to combine in chemical union with whatever minerals are carried in the water and thereby neutralize the same, the chemical union of the minerals and the metal compositionbeinpevidenced by a coagulation of I the minerals and the softening of the water.

The balls 10 are preferably made of the same metals as the body 1, and a number of them sufficient to practically till the passage 3 are provided, and when water is admit ted through the inlet 2 the balls are caused to roll along the passage and strike against the tortuous walls thereof and thereby The current of caused to rebound from one side of the pas- 1 sage to the other, bringing about an agitation of the flowing water. This rebounding brings all of such water at one time or another during its passage through the body into intimate contact with some' 'part of the composition where the minerals carried in solution can be acted upon and a chemical union formed thereby. v By providing a body 1 of greater length than its width, I am enabled to mold a continuous passage way therein having a greater length than in any other form in which such passage-way could otherwise be formed, and I thereby securea longer distance for theballs to travel through the said passage-way than could otherwise be obtamed, and I have discovered that in an apparatus wherein balls are caused to traverse a passage-way to produce a purification of water it is essential that the water be caused to traverse as great a distance in contact with the metals in'order to secure the proper reaction upon the minerals, acids or alkalis contained in solution therewith.

What I claim is:- g

l. A water purifier comprising .a composition member having a U shaped passage therein, an inlet pipe for feedin water to said passage, an outlet pipe for ta king water from said passage, balls of a material suited to abrade the walls of said passage, and a plug for closing an opening in said com positebody, said opening being adapted to render easy the insertion and removal of said balls, said composite body also being provided with an inclined passage connecting the ends of said inlet-and said outlet pipes down which said balls are impelled by gravity.

2. The combination with a boiler feed pipe, of a chamber disposed in the line of the feed pipe, and a body whirled therein by the water passing through said chamber, said body and said chamber being of a 1155 inetallicalloy suited'to correct" the impurities in the water. 4

3. The combination with boiler: feed piPe, Ofa chamber arranged in thellne of Y i Angeles, California, this H15 

